CALIFORNIA CENTRAL VALLEY PROJECT SAN JOAQUIN RIVER CANAL & IRRIGATION SYSTEM FILM 63384
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2019
- Presented by the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation and produced by Raphael Wolff Studios, California Central Valley Basin is an educational film on the Central Valley Project (CVP), highlighting the project’s dams, reservoirs, canals, and water distribution throughout California’s Central Valley Basin. The film opens with shots of the San Joaquin River and the canals of the valley. The CVP allows for better flood control and more consistent irrigation of the basin, enabling higher yields in the produce grown there. Orchards are irrigated by the project (00:45); a tractor plows soil on a farm in the valley (01:04). The film shows various shots of the valley, including farms, fields, towns, and grocery stores. A topographical map shows Central Valley with the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers running through it. A couple fishes at one of the valley’s canals (04:17). Graphics are used to show how the damming of the San Joaquin River diverts water to more arid areas of Central Valley. The film then takes viewers to Shasta Dam, with Shasta Lake and Mt. Shasta in the background (05:56). A boat motors out on Shasta Lake (06:30). A hydroelectric dam on the Sacramento River generates power for the region (07:11). A man goes waterskiing on Shasta Lake (07:55). An elderly couple picnic at a spot overlooking Shasta Lake. The film then shows the American River (08:44) with its levies and Folsom Dam (09:18). People swim in Folsom Reservoir and sailboats sail on the lake (09:30). A salmon ladder assists the migration of salmon at Folsom Dam (09:54). Aerial footage shows the delta area of Central Valley (10:52). The film then takes viewers to the Delta Cross Chanel, where water from the Sacramento River is diverted at Walnut Grove and moved to the Tracy Pumping Plant (11:29). A man observes small fish in a holding tank at the Tracy Pumping Plant (12:38). Another beneficiary of the CVP is the Mendota Wildlife Area, which features wild ducks and geese (14:53). People enjoy water recreation at Millerton Lake (15:30). Madera Canal transports water flowing from Friant Dam (17:46). The film then features footage of Contra Costa Canal (18:19), Sly Park Dam and Jenkinson Lake (18:50), the city of Sacramento (20:10), then it ends with shots from around the basin, including farms and orchards, dams, and canals.
The Central Valley Project (CVP) is a federal water management project in the U.S. state of California under the supervision of the United States Bureau of Reclamation (USBR). It was devised in 1933 in order to provide irrigation and municipal water to much of California's Central Valley-by regulating and storing water in reservoirs in the northern half of the state (once considered water-rich but suffering water-scarce conditions more than half the year in most years), and transporting it to the water-poor San Joaquin Valley and its surroundings by means of a series of canals, aqueducts and pump plants, some shared with the California State Water Project (SWP). Many CVP water users are represented by the Central Valley Project Water Association.
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This is the coolest water project in the world. Seriously - California's plumbing is an engineering marvel.
This is an incredible video!! Stoked to see this historic documentary on the San Joaquin River.
This film is older than 1959. At 10:58, the Delta Cross Channel is shown. The candelabra tower that served as the transmission tower for KCRA, KOVR, and KXTV hadn't yet been built. The tower site would be just to the left of the channel, but as you can see, only open field is there. Construction began in 1959, so this film was shot before that.
You can also tell it's 50s based on the style of documentary and transatlantic accent. After 1965 there were rarely any films made in this style. Not to mention the fashions of some of the people included in the film!
Why are there sp many pieces missing from the posted film.. I'd like to see the missing parts.
I suspect the obviously missing pieces were lost due to historical film corruption and decay, and later editors' desire for conicity, rather than any politically motivated exclusion.
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Everyone is always going on about china's megaprojects I'm not an american but it's plain to see that the USA was the first country to do megaprojects on an epic scale gotta love the states 👍
It annoys me when it happens that the Americans themselves praise megaprojects in other Asian countries and speak badly or do not respect those they have in their own country.
At 10:16 -- I doubt hatcheries have seen fish that big since this video was made. So amazing how they promote it as the greatest thing. Hindsight is 20-20...
I suppose you keep measuring the fish through the years
@@leonardotaylhardat96 It's been well documented that hatchery fish are not as big or as viable as wild salmon. The downstream effect of that isn't on humans, but the whales that depend upon salmon for feeding. More specifically, the Southern Resident Killer Whale pods J,K, and L that usually roam between San Francisco Bay and Pungent Sound in Washington for the salmon coming in and out of the rivers.
Why does the narration skip so often, seemingly editing out parts of the script?
@Bringette Awnn completely reasonable explanation
It's old?
There's no editing...it would be much cleaner. The film has probably broken and been spliced back together at various times. This film looks like it was produced late 40s or early 50s.
What is the name of this film?
What is ket-sup?
The 50s way of saying ketchup 😅. Notice how he also says "tur-bin" instead of "tur-bine"
Why did you make this
Look how much water we used to give our Farmers. Now we make them use drip irrigation, which reduces underground water replenishing.
Then we cut off surface water which makes them suck even MORE groundwater. Then we yell at the farmers for using groundwater which is what we MADE them do.
Only in California. :-(
Jesus! your agricultural engeneering knowledge is pure shit, drip irrigation is the most efficient system, the usage of water is much much less than any other irrigation method, the freaking drip valve puts the exact amount of water, besides, you can have that system with a water tank and replenish the tank with surface or underground water!
don’t know what other choice we have considering the drought we’re in. It’s an untenable situation all around, maybe we shouldn’t have built huge farms in the desert to begin with?… which is what the San Joaquin Valley is classified as, based off rainfall per year.
Greatly increased acres under cultivation over the last 70 years.
I guess you world rather have the upstream farmers suck the downstream farmers dry rather than trying to optimize production.
@@archstanton_live I don't recall saying any such thing. have a nice day.
somebody needs t forward this to gavin newsome and his save the freaking fish new water shed...lmao we should have elected Nelder!!
Project in lack of foresight caused by greed
Many *projects* inspired by insight (some of which were motivated by blatant capitalism). They didn't get everything right and the system is still being improved upon. The competing goals of the system: Irrigation, domestic water supplies, flood control, hydropower generation and storage, salmon, steelhead, waterfowl and other natural resources conservation make it hard to balance one against another.
Back when sense and reason ruled. Before the bunny-hugging snowflakes took over, and stopped progress.
He's the guy who has to make everything political. Although he probably complains about "people who always make it political."